Hanna Hirshaut collection

Identifier: irn524216
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524216

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Hanna Hirshaut.

Scope and Content

The collection consists a blouse and photographs related to the experiences of Hanna Warhaftig Hirshaut and her family in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

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Hanka Hirshaut photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519053
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection consists of two pages of copyprints with several photos of family portraits per page.
Lavender blouse with tie worn during a young woman's escape from the Warsaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519054
- English
- overall: Height: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Blouse worn by 25 year old Hanna Warhaftig when she escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in March 1943. The blouse originally belonged to her mother, Basia, who gave it to her, with her blessing, to wear for her escape. Hanna wore it on special occasions while living in hiding on the Aryan side because it made her feel safe. Her mother was murdered in Treblinka in 1942 and this blouse is the only thing saved from her prewar life. The Jewish ghetto in Warsaw was established by the Germans not long after their September 1939 occupation of Poland. From summer 1942 on, there were frequent mass deport...

Hanna Hirshaut collection

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Hanka Hirshaut photographs

Lavender blouse with tie worn during a young woman's escape from the Warsaw ghetto